Posted on 03/02/2022 9:11:58 AM PST by Red Badger
A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that some Russian troops in Ukraine have surrendered or sabotaged their vehicles to avoid fighting, according to The New York Times.
The official said that a large amount of the Russian troops are young, and have not been trained properly in preparation for this all-out invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian troops are reportedly dealing with fuel and food shortages, in addition to low morale.
The official added that there have been cases where Russian troops have punched holes in their vehicles' gas tanks to avoid continue fighting. They didn't clarify how the military has determined these incidents or how many units have acted in similar ways to avoid fighting.
Over the past two days, Russian troops have created a 40-mile convoy of tanks and vehicles around the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
The Pentagon official added that the Russian commanders in charge could be "regrouping and rethinking" their strategy.
"They have a lot of power available to them," the Pentagon official said.
About 80% of the nearly 150,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's borders have joined in on the fight, the official added.
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LOTS of them.
Like I asked earlier... why all the sudden are we talking about possible health issues? There might be something to it, but what Putin is doing, immoral as it is, serves Russia’s strategic interests. Remove Putin tomorrow, and the next leader will pursue the same policies.
I do not believe anything my government says any more.
Remove Putin tomorrow, and the next leader will pursue the same policies.
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Yeltsin did not follow the policies of Gorbachev. Gorbachev did not follow the policies of Khrushchev.
Yeltsin proved to be a caretaker during a time when everything was in Flux. With Putin you are dealing with a latter-day tsar. If NATO hadn’t violated several promises not to extend membership to countries in Eastern Europe, we may not have gotten an autocrat like Putin.
That said... WW2 started in Poland, so a failure to extend security guarantees to that country was certainly understandable.
BS. And CNN reports we sent hundreds if stinger misses. BS again.
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